Rjksmusem bust of Johan de Witt 1665 Artus Quellinus I 1609-1668 Amsterdam
recorded on March 29, 2015
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The Hague, Netherlands, City Tour
The Hague is the second most-visited city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam because it's a city with many attractions and a large pedestrian zone where you can wander about in old historic lanes.
Although Amsterdam is the nation's capital, almost all of the government is headquartered here with the parliament, and the prime minister and perhaps most famous as home of the International Court of Justice, a branch of the United Nations.
This video is a practical guide for you showing exactly where are the main sites and where you should be walking to catch all of the highlights in your visit.
You might think of the Hague as perhaps a modern city, as a government city and therefore maybe not so interesting to visit, but you'll find that it's fascinating. The Hague has got a rich collection of historic buildings, some of them dating back as much as to the 13th century, amazingly, and they have been restored and renovated and kept up to date. The government is located in this complex of very old buildings in the heart of town. And yet there's also a modern side to the city, a modern shopping mall, ultramodern skyscrapers and that wonderful pedestrian zone. So altogether you'll find The Hague has got a lovely variety of kinds of neighborhoods and attractions, historic sites, shopping areas, museums, and just friendly people everywhere, and everywhere, bicycles.
The two closest main cities are Delft and Leiden, both of which make a good home base for visiting The Hague on a day trip, only 15 minutes away by train.
De treinramp van Schiedam, 35 jaar later
Precies 35 jaar geleden kwamen in Schiedam 24 mensen om bij een grote treinramp. Tussen station Schiedam-Nieuwland en Schiedam Rotterdam-West botste 's ochtends tegen acht uur een stoptrein naar Hoek van Holland tegen een zware locomotief van de internationale D-trein, de Rhein Express van Hoek van Holland naar München.
Onthulling Sculptuur 'Dutch Mechanisms' 1 juli 2016 Den Haag
Den Haag, vrijdag 1 juli 2016. Onthulling sculptuur 'Dutch mechanisms' door Folkert de Jong, ter nagedachtenis aan de Gebroeders Johan en Cornelis de Witt, slachtoffers van Oranje-furie in het rampjaar 1672
Helden Op Sokkels #4 | Gebroeders de Witt
Wie kent hem niet? Het Gebroeder de Witt-standbeeld in Dordrecht. Volgens voorbijgangers zit Johan de Witt er wat uitgeblust en droevig bij.
THE NETHERLANDS: WORLD COURT REJECTS CHARGES AGAINST NATO
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The United Nations' top court has rejected a request by Yugoslavia for an immediate cease-fire in NATO's air campaign.
Yugoslavia failed to get the air strikes halted while it presents its case in the World Court that the bombing violates international law and that NATO was committing genocide.
However, the International Court of Justice did deplore the use of force as it agreed to examine whether the airstrikes violate international law.
Yugoslavia filed the lawsuits on April 29, a little more than a month after the NATO bombing campaign began.
They were filed against Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium and the United Kingdom, as well as the United States and Spain.
Yugoslavia argued that airstrikes breach international agreements including the United Nations charter and international conventions on genocide.
The claim argued that NATO was committing genocide by endangering the entire Yugoslav population with pollution caused by attacks on oil refineries and chemical plants.
It argued there is no international justification for such an operation and that no single U-N Security Council resolution authorised it.
Yugoslavia wanted the court to order an immediate ceasefire as a first step while it considered whether the airstrikes are illegal, a process which could take years.
But the World Court, formally known as the International Court of Justice, rejected Yugoslavia's charges against eight NATO members, saying they did not fall under the Genocide Convention.
The court completely threw out Yugoslav complaints against the other two NATO members, the United States and Spain, on a legal technicality.
Both countries had opted out of a clause in the Genocide Convention stating that disputes are to be submitted to the World Court.
Judge Christopher Weeramantry, Vice President of the court, announced the decision.
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By 12 votes to three the court rejects the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
SUPER CAPTION: Judge Christopher Weeramantry, Vice President of the court
The U-N's highest judicial arm also said it had no jurisdiction to stop violence based on such a claim.
The decision was read out by the Vice President of the Court, Judge Christopher Weeramantry.
The rulings came less than a week after another U-N court in The Hague, the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, announced the indictments of Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic and four other senior Yugoslav officials.
They're charged with crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
The Yugoslav representative at the court said he was disappointed with Wednesday's decision.
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My people in Yugoslavia are being killed everyday by NATO- sponsored states. I believe the courts should have tried to do something in order to save human life. Now I can only deplore the fact that the Court did not satisfy such an expectation.
SUPER CAPTION: Rodoljub Epinski, agent of Yugoslavia in cases before the World Court
However, Wednesday's ruling was not all against Yugoslavia.
Judge Weeramantry said the court was troubled about the legal foundation for NATO's action.
He said the court was profoundly concerned about the use of force in
Yugoslavia, which he said raises 'very serious issues' of international law.
Yugoslavia had argued that NATO air strikes were illegal, basing its arguments on the U-N charter, the Geneva Conventions and the Genocide Convention.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
SUPER CAPTION: Rodoljub Epinski, agent of Yugoslavia in cases before the World Court
Even if Yugoslavia had succeeded in the World Court, any ruling would have had little effect.
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Griekse ode aan De Witt
Griekse delegatie eert de gebroeders De Witt. Dordrecht, 21 maart 2009.
Krijgsmacht vertegenwoordigd bij 4 mei herdenking op Grebbeberg
Bij Rhenen herdacht de krijgsmacht dinsdag 4 mei 2010 alle militairen die sinds 1940 wereldwijd voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden zijn gevallen, dan wel het leven lieten bij de uitvoering van de militaire dienst.
De plechtigheid was op het Militair Ereveld Grebbeberg, waar Nederlandse soldaten in mei 1940 streden tegen Duitse troepen. Nederlandse militairen die daarbij sneuvelden liggen op het ereveld begraven, maar ook andere omgekomen Nederlandse soldaten zijn in de loop der jaren op de Grebbeberg bijgezet.
e krijgsmachtdelen werden vertegenwoordigd door Plaatsvervangend Commandant Landstrijdkrachten, tevens gastheer, generaal-majoor Marcel van den Broek en de generaal-majoors Ton van Ede (KM) en Ronald Harmsa (KMar). De commodere Ton Tieland vertegenwoordigde de Commandant Luchtstrijdkrachten en zijn ranggenoot Peter Heblij was er namens de Commandant der Strijdkrachten. Tevens waren er ruim 5000 belangstellenden onder wie veel nabestaanden. Veel van hen kwamen vroeger met tweeën of drieën, maar nu met de hele familie, inclusief kleinkinderen.
Meer dan tweehonderd militairen en burgercollegas zijn voor, tijdens en na de herdenking ingezet zoals de Vaandelwacht van het Garde Regiment Grenadiers en Jagers afkomstig 11 Luchtmobiele Brigade uit Schaarsbergen samen met een 62 personen tellende erewacht. De Koninklijke Militaire Kapel Johan Willem Friso uit Assen verzorgde de muziek. Twee militairen in ceremonieel tenue vormden de erepost bij het monument. Daarnaast zijn ongeveer veertig militairen van het 50 Natresbataljon uit Amersfoort ingezet voor allerlei diensten en zorgde personeel van het Commando DienstenCentra en de Koninklijke Marechaussee voor zaken als transport, afzetting en verkeersregeling.
Dag Den Haag dinsdag 13 april 2010
- Deze week zijn de landelijke verkeersexamens begonnen. De komende maand doen vijfduizend Haagse basisscholieren mee aan de examens. Tijdens het examen worden het gedrag en de fietsvaardigheden van de leerlingen getoetst.
- Bewoners van de Schilderswijk kunnen sinds gisteren terecht in een nieuw buurthuis; het Haags Hopje in het Fakonahof. Het Oranjefonds subsidieert het buurthuis en daarom was Prinses Maxima bij de feestelijke opening.
- Het Gymnasium Haganum pakt weer eens flink uit tijdens de jaarlijkse musical. Vandaag kwamen in de Sporthal op de Gaslaan ruim vierhonderd leerlingen bijeen voor de repetities voor de musical 'Odysseys, Odysseus.
- De brandweer in Den Haag voert actie. Tot en met donderdag vijftien april worden in de Haagse kazernes zondagsdiensten gedraaid.
- Openbare basisschool De Startbaan in Ypenburg adopteert een oorlogsmonument. Het monument, dat nu nog aan de Johan de Wittlaan staat, werd vanmorgen verplaatst naar het evenemententerrein naast de school.
- Daniel Slaman bouwde op zijn zeventiende zijn eerste gitaar. Ruim dertig jaar later lukt het hem om hiermee zijn brood te verdienen en krijgt hij internationaal steeds meer naam.
Uitslaande brand Vlaardingen; van begin tot eind - Bolderwerk Vlaardingen
Beelden van de uitslaande woningbrand aan het Bolderwerk in Vlaardingen, afgelopen dinsdag (1 april 2014). In de video is de verloop van de brand goed te zien; het eerste deel is versneld, maar daar is goed te zien hoe het steeds zwarter wordt achter het raam. De rook vult de kamer steeds meer. Als de bewoners dan thuiskomen en de deur openen stappen ze zo de rook in. Bekijk de video en zie hoe snel het vuur om zich heen grijpt.
TIJDLIJN VAN ORIGINELE VIDEO:
00;00 - Bewoonster komt thuis en doet deur open
02;37 - Vuur laait op achter het raam
03;55 - Vuurzee laat voorruit springen
04;27 - Vlammen door de deuropening
07;05 - Aankomst eerste tankautospuit
33;17 - Tankautospuit (in beeld) vertrekt weer naar kazerne.
Video met dank aan Rodney Horsmeijer
Mobilisatie Oorlogskruizen voor KNIL-officieren
Cadet-vaandrig André Henri Mantiri heeft postuum het Mobilisatie Oorlogskruis ontvangen. De militair kwam op 18 september 1944 om het leven bij de torpedering van het Japanse krijgsgevangeneschip Junyo Maru. Minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert reikte de onderscheiding uit, die Herman Mantiri donderdag 21 januari in Den Haag voor zijn broer in ontvangst nam. Deze week kreeg ook de 97-jarige veteraan Frederik Wieringa het Mobilisatie Oorlogskruis.
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De Ring van Huygens
In de Grote Kerk is een tentoonstelling over Constantijn en Christiaan Huygens gestart. Over een vader en zoon die de Gouden Eeuw bepaalden op diplomatiek, wetenschappelijk en cultureel gebied.
Stichting De Ooievaart organiseert een speciale vaar- en wandelroute 'De Ring van Huygens'. Een dagelijkse bootverbinding tussen de Grote Kerk en het Huygensmuseum Hofwijck in Voorburg.
De wandelroute voert langs tal van plekken die in het leven van Constantijn Huygens een rol speelden.
Kijk voor meer informatie op huygenstentoonstelling.nl of ooievaart.nl.
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List of works about the Dutch East India Company | Wikipedia audio article
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00:07:29 1 Non-fiction
00:07:38 1.1 Books, dissertations and theses
00:07:49 1.1.1 General
00:24:47 1.1.2 Roles in economic, financial and business history
00:44:41 1.1.3 Science, technology, and culture in the VOC World
01:01:53 1.1.4 VOC military and political history
01:06:02 1.1.5 VOC maritime history (VOC in the Age of Exploration)
01:24:44 1.1.6 VOC historiography
01:27:47 1.1.7 VOC people
01:42:03 1.1.8 VOC in Europe
01:47:45 1.1.9 VOC in Africa
02:08:51 1.1.10 VOC in South and West Asia (including the Indian subcontinent)
02:30:42 1.1.11 VOC in Southeast Asia (including the East Indies)
02:44:53 1.1.12 VOC in East Asia
03:09:42 1.2 Journal articles, scholarly papers, essays, and book chapters
03:09:55 1.2.1 General history
03:42:39 1.2.2 Economic, financial and business history
04:35:09 1.2.3 Cultural and social history
05:29:40 1.2.4 Military and political history
05:54:16 1.2.5 Maritime history
06:12:14 2 Fiction
06:13:42 3 Audio
06:14:30 4 Video
06:15:16 5 Seminars and symposiums
06:15:42 6 Documentary
06:16:09 7 Film
06:16:27 8 Music
06:16:40 9 VOC World in visual arts
06:17:01 10 See also
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The Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC) is one of the most influential and best expertly researched companies/corporations in history. As an exemplary historical company-state, the VOC had effectively transformed itself from a corporate entity into a state, an empire, or even a world in its own right. The VOC World (i.e. networks of people, places, things, activities, and events associated with the Dutch East India Company) has been the subject of a vast amount of literature that includes both fiction and non-fiction works. VOC World studies is an international multidisciplinary field focused on social, cultural, religious, scientific, technological, economic, financial, business, maritime, military, political, legal, diplomatic activities, institutional organization, and administration of the VOC and its colourful world. Some of the notable VOC historians/scholars include Sinnappah Arasaratnam, Leonard Blussé, Peter Borschberg, Charles Ralph Boxer, Jaap Bruijn, Femme Gaastra, Om Prakash, Günter Schilder, and Nigel Worden.
In terms of global business history, the lessons from the VOC's success and failure are critically important. With a permanent capital base, the VOC was the first permanently organized limited-liability joint-stock company at the dawn of modern capitalism. As an early pioneering model of the modern corporation, the VOC was the first corporation to be ever actually listed on a formal stock exchange. In the early 1600s the VOC became the world's first formally listed public company (or publicly listed company) by widely issuing bonds and shares of stock to the general public. In many respects, modern-day publicly listed multinational corporations (including Forbes Global 2000 companies) are all 'descendants' of the 17th-century VOC business model.
For almost 200 years of its existence (1602–1800), the Company played crucial roles in business, financial, socio-politico-economic, military-political, diplomatic, legal, ethnic, and exploratory maritime history of the world. In the early modern period, the VOC was the driving force behind the rise of corporate-led globalization, corporate power, corporate identity, corporate culture, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, corporate finance, corporate capitalism, and finance capitalism. It was the VOC's institutional innovations and business practices that laid the foundations for the rise of giant global corporations to become a highly significant and formidable socio-politico-economic force of the modern world as we know it today ...
Geert Wilders final trial speech (Eng.subtitles)
The final words of Geert Wilders in the trial against him. Full text:
Dodenherdenking 2015
Na een kerkdienst in de Joannes de Dooper kerk vertrok er een stille tocht naar het monument aan het Emmapark, deze werd voorafgegaan door de stille troms vier leden van drumfanfare Haaglanden.
Na een gedicht van leerlingen van het Stanislas college en een toespraak van Amnesty international was het tijd voor twee minuten stilte hierna is er door verschillende organisaties bloemen gelegd.
Het publiek wat in grote getalen was opgekomen sloot zich aan bij het daarop volgende defilé.
Wie was Willem van Oranje?
In deze aflevering vertellen we over Willem van Oranje - de vader des vaderlands. Hij speelde een sleutelrol in de Tachtigjarige Oorlog tegen Spanje, maar moest het met de dood bekopen.
Zijn rol in de strijd tegen de Spanjaarden werd hem niet in dank afgenomen. De Spaanse vorst Filips II verklaarde hem 'vogelvrij', wat betekent dat iedereen hem zonder straf mocht doden. Sterker nog, de moordenaar zou ervoor betaald krijgen.
Die beloning vond de Franse Balthasar Gerards wel aantrekkelijk. Op 10 juli 1584 trok hij naar het Prinsenhof in Den Haag om Willem van Oranje te 'spreken'. Zodra hij hem zag, trok hij zijn pistool en schoot hij Oranje neer.
De moordenaar had succes. Willem van Oranje overleefde het niet. Gerards zou zijn geld niet krijgen, maar wel zijn verdiende loon! Hij wist niet te ontsnappen. Zijn einde was gruwelijk...
Maar deze aflevering gaat natuurlijk niet alleen over de moord op Oranje! Leer ook over Alva, de inquisitie, het ontzet van Leiden, en nog veel meer!
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Louis XIV of France | Wikipedia audio article
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Louis XIV of France
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Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (Roi Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France and Navarre from 1643 until his death in 1715. Starting on 14 May 1643 when Louis was 4 years old, his reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest recorded of any monarch of a sovereign country in European history. In the age of absolutism in Europe, Louis XIV's France was a leader in the growing centralisation of power.Louis began his personal rule of France in 1661, after the death of his chief minister, the Italian Cardinal Mazarin. An adherent of the concept of the divine right of kings, which advocates the divine origin of monarchical rule, Louis continued his predecessors' work of creating a centralised state governed from the capital. He sought to eliminate the remnants of feudalism persisting in parts of France and, by compelling many members of the nobility to inhabit his lavish Palace of Versailles, succeeded in pacifying the aristocracy, many members of which had participated in the Fronde rebellion during Louis' minority. By these means he became one of the most powerful French monarchs and consolidated a system of absolute monarchical rule in France that endured until the French Revolution.
Louis encouraged and benefited from the work of prominent political, military, and cultural figures such as Mazarin, Colbert, Louvois, the Grand Condé, Turenne, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, André Charles Boulle, Molière, Racine, Boileau, La Fontaine, Lully, Marais, Le Brun, Rigaud, Bossuet, Le Vau, Mansart, Charles, Claude Perrault, and Le Nôtre. Under his rule, the Edict of Nantes, which granted rights to Huguenots, was abolished. The revocation effectively forced Huguenots to emigrate or convert in a wave of dragonnades, which managed to virtually destroy the French Protestant minority.
During Louis' reign, France was the leading European power, and it fought three major wars: the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg, and the War of the Spanish Succession. There were also two lesser conflicts: the War of Devolution and the War of the Reunions. Warfare defined the foreign policy of Louis XIV, and his personality shaped his approach. Impelled by a mix of commerce, revenge, and pique, Louis sensed that warfare was the ideal way to enhance his glory. In peacetime he concentrated on preparing for the next war. He taught his diplomats that their job was to create tactical and strategic advantages for the French military.